Removable card for use in time-recorders.



1'. w. BRYCE.

- REMOVABLE CARD FOR USE IN TIME RECORDERS.

APPLICATION man www. 1911.

1,146,998. Patented July 2o, 1915.

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WITNESSES:

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portant or necessary dent ofrloomeld, i111 the coimty @1f- Essex and State otfNewfJer'Svy.haveinvented e "ilewsandrusefulImprovementfin;'Removable ./1 Qard's'for. .Uses Time-Recorders, of which 1; Yfel lowingisf;av{sneiqatione.5. I l, Jy' :nventl'enfrelates .toemiov. ble Cards useiimlfreCOrders 1 recowler-and:I movable there:

pable of being easily;accurately/and t 'ntvfpdstioned in theretorder'lor exact i' the ame @Speciallyof vSge e ,y im mark ry :therein in{aitimejrecordra or made or punched time record orhole into exact and aceurate vregister/*with a part of e the time recorder lwith the ysecond;operation, @valuewherel the previously made orpunched i fqMyrinventionconsists of whichit 1s to coact in Vmark,Qorholejisafrelatively small one..

shown .andsetjy forth herein. f

shownmy- "improved lcard in its preferred V isa viewtof ,thecardfpprovidedwith-a ,posi-` tioning...mark kor hole, 4 0:1

l and preferably gwith ai-plurality of `the1n5k and" before. thejcardj has 'fl-b'een linsertedfinto a time recorder;l Fig.' 2

'inserted into the illustratesthe-same `cardafterity has lbeen v time recorder on the first y operationandfaf-.suitable time recordmade 45 thereon; [the card is recorderyft'o: Arecord Vthe l now ready *for a subsequent insertion" iny the same or asimilar` time eration,l o'r theelapsed time between theftwo `of-ther'ev'ers'esidefof the card. f

operations; and" Fig. 3'is a l view Vof "thegtop i 1 is* my' improved objectfto' de card", in;

ving. IQQOrdsQmede *upon ,itfthe ccuratei register card; after cord a punched afsimilar time! the '-isanie time; recorder for a and fit lis of peculiar ,.1 recorder when the fj' In the"drawingr accompanying this speciof the' recording operation altogether, tirneof asecond op# 41rmi'yroviajann, CARD; nonnen iNYTIMn-nnconnnns. Aj

l .useja",kpluralityV of such marks and COMPANY for New vonk, or nunrcor'r; iin'w Your; A Cormoran; v A

they are illustrated in the drawing as the po;

sitioning holes y .lhese;` are froundedlorl curved -in ytheir operative parts andzpreferf' l ably. are-circularholes. 'lf-They are adapted e to coactj with eciTesponding positioningr dei vicesinf the time or other recorder inorder to move, the card into'exact `.and accurate ypor'` l sitionin the time recorder, or into exact and f accurate register with somefpart of thetime '@These Positioning-.holes are pref-f erablyf: mader relatively largeas compared withthepositioningdevices with which they recorder.

are to coast".u They oroneof Athem is preflltv i' erably placed upon the'cardnear to that y ofthe card: which it isdesired tobrin'gv .letefvexatl resister with 'Some i part `.Ot lthe f tlme recorder.

, inthe erst epemnon'jof themefecprder,

l, holesf2,f2 are punched by suitable time recording devices,l and represent thetime of more than mere pin-holes.

theirfcoactingevice vor' devicesin the time card isr placedrin the time previously` punched son( The latter are vsometimes Vmade verysmallf l* i sometimes not i n u Such-'small holesareapt notto register with the' novel devices 8.5k i i recorder for the secondoperation;V This is f A practice, it has been found verydillicult to register previously punched holes, especially when of a ysmall size, with .coacting devices A 1n 'a time recorder, owing to variations in the conditions above referred to. 1s so serlous that sometimes 1t "causes :erro-V This matter neousftime records to be `vmadeon` a secondA operation, and sometimes an absolute failure My improved card is designed to and does overcome these difficulties,

rIn the particular formhof card shown in the drawing, Ihave shown a'space 4L for-'1re-` cording the time of afirstor In "operation,A and in Fig. 2, the time of such operay vtion is shown asfA. 12.25 f.

the small-size of the'` holes, 'Y `and .partlyftc vthe changes in the size of the v card,` due `to varying conditions; suchl `as 9o changes in temperature, humidity, etc.r In: f

and lenables accurate andexact registerto. be always maintained.

-Ihave also V y suchoperation. One of the holes 3 is preferr, tbly "Placed as near 

